Dec. 31 Letters: Duck Dynasty

I was disgusted with the "Punch Lines" cartoon showing a Bible in lieu of toilet paper, no matter the subject. Would you publish this if the Koran was substituted for the Bible?

I am not a member of any church, but I found this appalling, especially following the most important Christian holiday. The least you can be accused of is poor taste.

Phyllis Huling

Newport News

Your editorial cartoon in the Dec. 29 paper ("Punch Lines") was one of the most offensive ever.

The decision to put that in the paper must have been made without any thought to how a Christian would feel about the insulting point being made. This is just as intolerant as you apparently feel Phil Robertson's recent comments were. Surely there is a better way to make that point.

.

Michael Cochrane

Williamsburg

Too offensive

Your editorial "cartoon" in the Sunday (Dec. 30) edition of the Daily Press was particularly offensive. Though I don't dress or look at all like the Duck Dynasty TV members, I have a similar belief as they do that the Bible is, in fact, God's Holy Word.

For you to display the Bible in such a disrespectful and insulting way as to hang it like toilet paper in an outhouse goes to new depths of ugliness on your part. I don't think you would have taken such a cavalier approach to hanging some other religious book (such as the Koran or Book of Mormon) in such a despicable manner.

James E Lewis

Yorktown

Editor's note:

The disrespect to the Bible is in your own eyes. The cartoon very clearly is taking aim at people who dishonor the Bible by choosing only those passages that happen to fit their own intolerant views, much as American slaveholders once excused the practice by noting that it's mentioned in the Bible. We would and have made similar attacks on intolerance of every religious stripe. Making fun of religious rigidity is not an attack on religion.